Current Science

Fuquan Tang ¹, Jiaxin Lu ¹, Pengfei Li ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, CN

Abstract

Land subsidence in the loess-covered mountainous area is a complex process that contemporary models could not accurately simulate. We assumed that flatground mining subsidence was the result of joint action of bedrock mining subsidence under equivalent load of the loess layer and the spread of bedrock surface subsidence to land surface via thick loess layers. Quantitative relationships between equivalent load of the loess layer and equivalent exploitation width, depth, and bedrock subsidence were examined. A double-medium model of flat-ground mining subsidence based on stochastic medium theory was developed to simulate the interactions between loess layers and bedrock. Another model was established to describe the slip deformation associated with loess in hill side mining. The two models were integrated to account for mining subsidence on flat ground and hillside. The integrated model was demonstrated to be robust in land subsidence deformation prediction for loess-covered mountainous area based on field measurements from a mining area in western China.

Keywords

Deformation Prediction, Loess Layer, Mining Area of Western China, Mining Subsidence, Hillside Slip.

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